Hello Brendan, Sounds like you went down to Camera Arts. Are you aware that Action Camera in Roseville (my town) is an active Pentax dealer? Recently when I was the first on the list to procure the 16-50/2.8, it was from them. I put my name on the list - first guy I think, and they got one of the first in and called me. I was there that day to get it. They are mainly Nikon and some Pentax - including MF (I got one of my 67ii's there). It is nice to go in because they treat you decent even though you are not a Canon or Nikon user. You might want to look them up.
-- Bruce Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 8:24:04 PM, you wrote: BM> So, after my fruitless search for the 16-50mm f2.8 BM> over the last coupe of days (except for the 5 BM> available from the guy in Tokyo on eBay, for BM> $1,185.00US), I decided to take a deep breath and not BM> worry about it for now. BM> I took a drive down to a "local" camera shop in BM> Sacramento to pick up a couple white background rolls BM> and listen to the radio on the way. BM> At some point I was reminded about this months' issue BM> of Outdoor Photographer. In it, they reviewed the K10D BM> touting its "unique" Foveon X3 chip (see inset, pg. BM> 92). Suddenly, those old feelings of being abused BM> crept back into my head drowning out Boston's "More BM> than a feeling." BM> I got to the shop and found my rolls of Arctic White BM> 53" x 36' I was needing. I took a look around and BM> wasn't suprised to see everything but Pentax on the BM> shelves. So, I asked one of the salesmen, "Do you guys BM> carry any new Pentax stuff?" BM> "No, sorry. You must be one of the last people to BM> still shoot Pentax." BM> "Hum, that's a damn shame," I said, "if you did I buy BM> one of their new lenses from you." I thought my point BM> was obvious. BM> "Well, only about 1 in a 1000 people ever ask about BM> Pentax anymore," he said as if his math were valid. BM> "That may be, but some of their new gear is quite BM> good, ya know," I said not knowing that he really BM> didn't know and was even less interested in what I was BM> about to say. "The K10D has been making some waves and BM> they have some great new lenses coming out for it." BM> "Well, I don't know anthing about it, I haven't read BM> any of the reviews on it, and I don't make those BM> decisions anyway the owner does. There's a lot of BM> great gear out there that we don't carry." At that BM> point he handed me the charge slip to sign and I took BM> my yellow copy and left. BM> It's a sad thing though. I really used to get such a BM> kick out of going to camera stores. Not so much BM> anymore. BM> -Brendan BM> BM> ____________________________________________________________________________________ BM> Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative BM> vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. BM> http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
